Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of BostonJames R. Osgood and Company, 1873 - 484 páginas |
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... Massachusetts Volunteers ; Fletcher , Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion , was killed near Bull Run in 1862 . With two such distinguished lights of the profession as Otis 46 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON .
... Massachusetts Volunteers ; Fletcher , Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion , was killed near Bull Run in 1862 . With two such distinguished lights of the profession as Otis 46 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON .
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... Colonel Benjamin Church in an expedition against the French and Indians in 1704 , in which he com- manded a small vessel , called the Province Snow , of fourteen guns . When Admiral Sir H. Walker arrived in Boston in 1711 , with a fleet ...
... Colonel Benjamin Church in an expedition against the French and Indians in 1704 , in which he com- manded a small vessel , called the Province Snow , of fourteen guns . When Admiral Sir H. Walker arrived in Boston in 1711 , with a fleet ...
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... Colonel Washing- ton visited Boston accompanied by Captain George Mercer of Virginia and Captain Stewart . He came to refer a question of command to General Shirley who had succeeded Braddock in the military control of the colonies ...
... Colonel Washing- ton visited Boston accompanied by Captain George Mercer of Virginia and Captain Stewart . He came to refer a question of command to General Shirley who had succeeded Braddock in the military control of the colonies ...
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... colonel of the Boston Regi- ment in 1745 ; afterwards a councillor , and a director in the first banking institution in the province . His son Oliver , also a leading Bostonian , was the grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes , the only ...
... colonel of the Boston Regi- ment in 1745 ; afterwards a councillor , and a director in the first banking institution in the province . His son Oliver , also a leading Bostonian , was the grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes , the only ...
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... Colonel Trumbull . The Adelphi . Scollay's Buildings and Square . - Queen Street Writing School . - Master James Carter . Cornhill . Brattle Street Parsonage . Old Prison . Captain Kidd . Court Houses . Franklin Avenue . - Kneeland ...
... Colonel Trumbull . The Adelphi . Scollay's Buildings and Square . - Queen Street Writing School . - Master James Carter . Cornhill . Brattle Street Parsonage . Old Prison . Captain Kidd . Court Houses . Franklin Avenue . - Kneeland ...
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Página 296 - Yes, that blessed name imparts Comfort to those, who in the grave have sown The seed, that they had garnered in their hearts, Their bread of life, alas ! no more their own. Into its furrows shall we all be cast, In the sure faith, that we shall rise again At the great harvest, when the...
Página 184 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Página 183 - And around the bows and along the side The heavy hammers and mallets plied, Till after many a week, at length, Wonderful for form and strength, Sublime in its enormous bulk, Loomed aloft the...
Página 273 - IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the whirring of a wheel, Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes are in my brain. As the spinners to the end Downward go and reascend. Gleam...
Página 84 - I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice, Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor ! Walk up, walk up, gentlemen, walk up, walk up ! Here is the superior stuff!
Página 181 - Others may use the ocean as their road, Only the English make it their abode, Whose ready sails with every wind can fly, And make a covenant with the inconstant sky : Our oaks secure, as if they there took root, We tread on billows with a steady foot.
Página 51 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Página 266 - Should the tempest of war overshadow our land, Its bolts could ne'er rend freedom's temple asunder; For, unmoved, at its portal would Washington stand. And repulse, with his breast, the assaults of the...
Página 75 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Página 34 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.